Late one evening

Flying, turning, stop.
Graceful wings, joyful cries. Light
fades slowly up north.

Too Wonky Traktors spent a year coercing two instances of Ableton to talk to each other. This collaborative setup leads to subtly layered tunes, built from eclectic source material. I'm not very fond of genre classifications, but wonky does seem appropriate here. This track is quite minimal, but has the polished edge of something finely wrought. I look forward to catching them live.

Too Wonky Traktors: Summer Blossom Chat in The Park

Vaxadrin mystery EP: Life After Math

This is a little odd. I found an EP on my hard disk, apparently downloaded in April 2008 and lost among all the great free music that I'm still digging through. The MP3 release is tagged as by Vaxadrin, and is called "Life After Math" (of course it could be mistagged and may actually be the EP Vaxadrin by Life After Math). Could someone provide a pointer to what this is and where it could be located? My Google-fu fails to locate a source; there is no such artist at Musicbrainz or Discogs; Archive.org knows nothing. My puzzlement about the lack of trace of artist or release on the net is that this is rather excellent music, and it would be great to spread the word! But it is a bit odd to be forced to say "I found these great tracks on my hard disk, sorry I have no idea of their status". Please help!

The five tracks are listed as:

1. Starry Sky
2. Know Yourself
3. Mythical Creatures
4. Wall Of Sound
5. Breathing Deeper

Three of these are worth heavy-duty listening, and I would wholeheartedly recommend this release for anyone keen on lush melodic electronica with pop sensibilities, a dose of minimalism, a dash of glitch, and a nod to dubstep. Alas, no links until I have worked out the status of these tracks...

Summer tufts

Many things to do.
Cool breeze, riverside picnic
Ants in the grass? Smile.

Today's "super chill" track (or otherwise, lush melodic instrumental electronica) is by James Kirsch (a.k.a. General Fuzz). The beats and careful arrangement stop the piano and strings from pulling the composition over into the abyss occupied by Andreas Vollenweider. As a wee lad I did spend far too much time down there, but I'm much better now. Take a journey to the land just a shade this side of Easy Listening, but be careful of the edge.

General Fuzz: Second Thoughts